## Kingsdown & Creekside PCC Annual Report of the Parish of Kingsdown and Creekside in the Diocese of Canterbury, 2023 The parish is now in its eighth year and is registered, as an excepted charitable organisation, in its own right. The registration no. is 1162554-0 The purpose of the parish is religious activities which are available to the general public. The PCC of the parish, which comprises the trustees of the charity, continues to operate by acting as a central reporting and decision making body for the parish as a whole and oversees the spiritual direction for the parish, maintaining seven parish churches and eight open churchyards via seven steering groups which are subcommittees of the PCC and attached to each church, by identifying and supporting other charitable activities as it sees fit and is able to supply from its finances and by provision of activities that may involve people living in the area who are not necessarily members of the churches. Members can be identified as those having their names entered on the church electoral roll of the parish; the current electoral roll stands at 159. The PCC achieves its purpose by providing public worship in all licensed places of worship on a regular, identifiable basis which are open to all members of the public. Most of the church buildings are kept open at times other than advertised services for at least part of the year thus providing ready access to quiet and sacred places. There continue to be ideas under discussion to improve the facilities of a number of church buildings in the parish. One of the churches has a monthly café serving hot breakfasts, drinks, cakes in order to make the Church a more visible presence in the community and give an opportunity for the wider population to meet together and become familiar with the church building. Another licensed place of worship within the parish is the Teynham Parochial Church of England (Controlled) Primary School. This building has been used, in previous years, monthly to run a Messy Church - a Fresh Expressions Church. Collective Worship led by the Clergy team takes place on a weekly basis in term-time with Parents included for special celebrations such as Christmas and Easter. However, a Light Party was held for Primary aged and a second one for Secondary Aged Children at Halloween with invitations being sent widely through the Communities. The All Together Now service, started in 2022, is continuing to be held at one of Our Churches with a specific aim to reach out to families. This monthly service has been growing in numbers of adults and children attending. “Breakthrough” is also a Fresh Expressions church for both the parish and also surrounding churches. Our isolated rural church with no mains services continues to offer a service of Evensong on the first Sunday of the month during the summer. Additional pastoral work is undertaken including visiting the sick and bereaved, providing social contact and activities through other regular meetings. The Occasional Offices of Baptisms, Funerals and Weddings are a normal part of our mission and outreach to the wider community in the parish. The local primary schools are visited regularly by clergy and others where they lead assemblies and are closely involved in the governance of the Voluntary Controlled School in Teynham whilst the Rector is a foundation Member of the Academy running a second school. The Youth Club for Secondary School aged Young People has continued throughout 2023 at Lynsted Church with more numbers of young people attending than prepandemic. Members of the church community are also closely involved in the running of groups for young people such as scouts, cubs and beavers and a local preschool group. 2023 saw a regular pattern of services being maintained at all of the 7 Churches in the Parish, one in a weekly basis, 2 on a 3 Sundays a month basis, 3 on fortnightly basis and our remote Church holding a Service at Easter and a Carol event at Christmas with a summer series of monthly Evensong services. An audio service is posted weekly on the Parish Website and Breakthrough at Lynsted Church is now live-streamed in Facebook each week. A daily Morning Prayer service, live-streamed on Facebook, has continued since the first one took place on March 20[th] 2020. The PCC met four times in the year with an extra meeting to approve the accounts, in order to set the overall spiritual direction of the parish to review what it has done in the past and to identify how it might advance the mission of the church in general. Individual churches also support various other charitable activities as they see fit. The PCC continues to be represented in the local organisation of the Church of England at both deanery and diocesan level. The ministry of the church is provided not only by ordained clergy but by a strong team of lay people both licensed and authorised. This enables the PCC to ensure that there is a wide range and number of services in the parish each Sunday (apart from the fifth Sunday of a month when a Benefice Service is held at one of the churches on a rotating basis.). All of these activities are ways in which we work to meet the objectives of the charity. In September 2023, our Rector, Revd. Canon Dr. Stephen Lillicrap retired from ministry. This was followed by an interregnum. The Rev Hans Hentshel provided ministry from September to November. ## Administrative Details The address for correspondence is and registered office of the charity is: The Rectory, 76, Station Road, Teynham, Sittingbourne, Kent. ME9 9SN July 2024 – this has now changed to The Vicarage, The Street, Doddington ME9 0BH Membership of the PCC and trustees Clergy: Revd. Canon Dr. Stephen Lillicrap. Revd Jim Pye Rev Caroline Turvey Rector (retired September 23) Associate Priest from 28[th] September Training Curate from 3[rd] July 2021 (left Feb 2024) From May 2024, the new Rector is Rev Paula Jardine-Rose Churchwardens: Charlotte Relf Robbie Jardine Sophia Steel Bruce Leckie Les Roberts Bob Prichard David Willis Members: Joyce Trim Jean Hewett David Buckett Heather Parry Cheryl Tomsett Julie Redgrove Deanery Synod Representative: Sue Baldry Catherine Richardson from March 2024 Lissie Bayford from March 2024 Officers: Joyce Warren. Treasurer Heather Parry Secretary ## **KINGSDOWN & CREEKSIDE PAROCHIAL CHURCH C Financial Statements for the period ended 31st Dece Consolidated Accounts** |**Income**
**Voluntary Receipts:**
Regular Giving
Collections at Service
Collections other than giving
Gift Aid/ Tax Recovered
Grants
**Other Voluntary Receipts**
Activities for Generating Funds
Bank/Investment Income
Fees Retained
Trading Activities
Other receipts
**Expenditure:**
Church Fundraising
Mission Giving & Donations
Diocesan Parish Share
Church Running Expenses
Church Utilities
Major Repairs
Others
Surplus Receipts /(Excess Payments)
Transfers between funds
Transfer (to)/from Benefice Account (Parish share & Insurance)
Balance brought forward 1 Jan 23
Balance as at 31 Dec 23
**STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES**
**Cash Funds:**
Bank current account/cash in hand
Bank Reserve/Deposit Account
CBF Investment|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
**£**
48,498
480
15,670
-
11,448
5,118
19,454
-
160
2,050
12,115
6,772
2,425
804
5,535
-
580
-
41,153
-| |---|---| ||**157,038**
**15,224**| ||726
-
4,018
1,210
82,209
9,180
-
9,458
-
1,906
36,820
62,582
-| ||**170,079**
**38,030**| ||(13,041)
(22,806)
(905)
905
-
-
-
-
137,130
169,154| ||**123,185**
**147,253**| ||28,520
44,793
26,205
42,757
76,031
40,737| ||130,756
128,287| ## **Other Monetary Assets:** Creditors (13,749) - Debtors 13,749 - **Net Worth 130,756 128,287** |**Unrestricted**
**Designated**
**Funds**
**Total**
**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
-
48,978
6,546
-
15,670
1,011
2,690
19,256
6,585
902
-
19,454
1,900
-
2,210
30
1,000
-
-
-
18,887
1,591
-
3,229
550
-
5,535
200
-
580
-
41,153
**COUNCIL**
**ember 2023**
**Doddington**|**Unrestricted**
**Designated**
**Funds**
**Total**
**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
-
48,978
6,546
-
15,670
1,011
2,690
19,256
6,585
902
-
19,454
1,900
-
2,210
30
1,000
-
-
-
18,887
1,591
-
3,229
550
-
5,535
200
-
580
-
41,153
**COUNCIL**
**ember 2023**
**Doddington**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
**£**
5,245
4,317
2,317
130
6,610
369
1,764
580
**Lynsted**| |---|---|---| |**2,690**
**174,952**|**18,413**
**1,902**|**21,332**
**-**| |||| |726
5,228
82,209
9,180
9,458
38,726
62,582|464
525
2,372
401
1,067
166|50
2,645
4,657
1,161
32,485
18| |**-**
**208,109**|**3,928**
**1,067**|**8,531**
**32,485**| |||| |2,690
(33,157)
14,485
835
-
1
836
(835)
-
-
(12,735)
-
-
-
306,284
35,815||12,801
(32,485)
(9,430)
9,430
(17,293)
17,633
36,025| |**2,690**
**273,128**
**38,401**
**-**||**3,711**
**12,970**| |||| |21,656
94,969
-
68,962
-
116,768|8,078
-
22,323
-
8,000
-|3,711
12,970
-
-
-
-| |21,656
280,699
38,401
-
3,711
12,970||| |-
(13,749)
-
13,749|-
-
2,061
-|(418)
-
-
-| |---|---|---| |**21,656**
**280,699**
**40,462**
**-**||**3,293**
**12,970**| |**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
10,358
6,530
1,923
1,634
4,216
411
2,714
5,404
122
6,772
378
176
843
767
**Newnham**
**Norton**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
10,358
6,530
1,923
1,634
4,216
411
2,714
5,404
122
6,772
378
176
843
767
**Newnham**
**Norton**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
**£**
5,756
3,054
1,945
495
1,487
285
628
106
**Oare**| |---|---|---| |**15,495**
**11,164**|**15,590**
**-**|**13,130**
**628**| |||| |300
1,210
1,736
1,177|157
1,726
4,766|45
395
418
176| |**3,213**
**1,210**|**6,649**
**-**|**1,034**
**-**| |||| |12,282
9,954
7,690
(7,690)
(15,076)
(520)
33,863|8,941
-
(10,377)
73,702|12,096
628
(12,648)
3,677
32,583| |**4,376**
**36,127**|**72,266**
**-**|**3,125**
**33,211**| |||| |4,376
22,958
-
-
-
13,170|353
-
3,126
5,644
3,882
-
-
-
68,031
-
-
27,567|| |4,376
36,127
72,266
-
3,126
33,211||| |-
-
544
-|-
-
413
-|-
-
1,275
-| |---|---|---| |**4,920**
**36,127**|**72,679**
**-**|**4,400**
**33,211**| |**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
**£**
12,065
480
3,469
8,754
1,050
2,101
2,652
754
**Teynham**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
**£**
1,998
262
190
187
204
46
**Wychling**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Unrestricted**
**Designated**
**Funds**
**£**
**£**
2,690
40,399
**Benefice**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Unrestricted**
**Designated**
**Funds**
**£**
**£**
2,690
40,399
**Benefice**| |---|---|---|---| |**29,795**
**1,530**|**2,887**
**-**|**40,399**|**2,690**| ||||| |237
3,098
1,675
1,079
685
3,268|25
200
60|82,209
57,456|| |**6,772**
**3,268**|**285**
**-**|**139,665**
**-**|| |23,023
(1,738)
2,602
-
(99,266)
2,690
(22,750)
90,879
47,717
2,900
**3,922**
18,966|||| |**273**
**45,979**|**5,502**
**-**|**(4,465)**
**21,656**|| ||||| ||||| |273
3,222
-
42,757
-
-|5,502
-
-
-
-
-|3,101
21,656
-
-
-
-|| |273
45,979
5,502
-
3,101
21,656|||| |-
-
6,365
-|(2,674)
-
-
-|(10,657)
-
3,091
-| |---|---|---| |**6,638**
**45,979**
**2,829**
**-**||**(4,465)**
**21,656**|